The concert DUKE IN AFRICA, exploring the influence of African music on Duke Ellington, plays through Jan. 17. We spoke with ...

The January 15-17 show pays tribute to the influence of African music on the work of renowned jazz artist Duke Ellington. We ...

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

“Nedbank is proud to stand alongside the first African edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival. Franschhoek represents ...

Nearly 60 years after Ellington’s performance in Senegal, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra revisits the African diaspora that shaped the composer’s work.

Jazz at Lincoln Center will launch its “Mother Africa” season with the world premiere of “Afro!,” a new commission by managing and artistic director — and jazz legend — Wynton Marsalis, on Sept. 18–20 ...

Legendary South African vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin will begin digitally reissuing her long out-of-print catalogue this year, including her 1963 album with Duke Ellington (A Morning in Paris), all ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Trumpeter and singer Hugh Masekela, known as the "father of South African jazz" who used his music in the fight against apartheid, has died from prostate cancer, his family ...

Bokani Dyer is not just a leading figure in contemporary South African jazz, he’s also a living link to its history. His father, saxophonist Steve Dyer, was part of Medu, a radical multi-disciplinary ...

While there are those who place flowers upon graves to honour the dead, others dust off the archives to reissue the music of an artist lost to time. Pianist Gideon Nxumalo, who died in 1970, was ...